Midnight Drop: Inside the Strikes on Iran

About this film

What did it feel like to live through the night it happened? As tensions in the Middle East continue to escalate, Midnight Drop returns to one of the moments that helped shape the current crisis: Operation Midnight Hammer, the June strike in which the United States targeted Iran’s nuclear facilities. The film follows two lives on opposite sides of the world. Laleh, a woman in Tehran beginning her morning routine feeding stray cats, unaware a strike is about to reach her doorstep. And a B-2 stealth bomber crew flying a classified mission toward Iran. What neither side can see in that moment is the other - yet both are connected by the same event. Midnight Drop is the third and most ambitious film in The Decisive Moment, OneDay’s cinematic series that places audiences inside the turning points shaping our world, described by Variety as “Mission: Impossible for the News.” Written, directed and produced by BOUHA KAZMI & SAMIR MALLAL Production Company ONEDAY Executive Producer SAMIR MALLAL AI Creative Director BOUHA KAZMI AI Creative Technology BOUHA KAZMI & SAMIR MALLAL CAST Woman MINA GHEISARI Husband DAVUD RASTGOU Neighbour BAMSHAD ABEDI-AMIN B-2 Pilots & Base Commander SAMIR MALLAL Casting Director SARA SYED Music “The Sun Roars Into View” Written and performed by COLIN STETSON & SARAH NEUFELD Published by THIRD SIDE MUSIC INC (SOCAN) Courtesy of CONSTELLATION Sound Designer JASON PEACOCK Foley Recording PETR KAPELLER Foley Artists         ALENA KOKRDOVÁ ZDENĚK DUŠEK Editors BILLY MEAD JIM WRIGHT Edit Producer ED HOADLEY Edit House TENTHREE Additional Visual Effects PINEAPPLE VFX Colour JEAN-CLEMENT SORET Colour Producer ELLORA SORET Colour Grading COMPANY 3 Head of Audience & Strategy CONRAD QUILTY-HARPER Head of Growth MADELAINE GUPPY Special Thanks MACHA ALFANDARY ELLA MALLAL LUCA MALLAL RITA KHATTAR FAROUQ MALLAL VEENA MALLAL STEPHEN CLARKE BBC NEWS AMIL KHAN TENTHREE PINEAPPLE VFX COMPANY 3 BECKY FOON SARAH NEUFELD